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Stardust Apparently Successful

Posted by michael on from the three-years-till-we-really-find-out dept.

Naomi_the_butterfly writes "The Stardust mission, a craft launched in February 1999, just concluded its encounter with comet Wild 2 at 11:40:35 am PST. The encounter went without a hitch, with about 72 images taken and comet coma (tail) dust collected! The first images will be downloaded to JPL over between 1:30 and 2:30 pm, in time for a press conference at 3:00 pm PST. Today a comet, tomorrow Mars!" Space.com has a picture taken by the spacecraft.

5 of 245 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This is so immense by Hanji · · Score: 0, Troll

    I, for one, welcome our new Stardust overlords.

    err.....right

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  2. So far, so good by WalksOnDirt · · Score: 0, Troll

    There seems to be a lot of celebrating just for catching the dust.

    Two years before its returned to Earth, if everything goes as planned. THEN I'll chear.

    For now, just a tepid thumbs up.

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  3. Re:finaly!! by Doppler00 · · Score: 0, Troll

    We pay NASA how much and they can't even provide decent quality images of their findings? This always bothers me that the latest findings and images from space craft are not easily available to the public. I mean, with all that money NASA is given, you would think they could afford high resolution images of comets, planets, and such. Not tiny little useless GIF files.

  4. In Other News........ by czion3 · · Score: 0, Troll

    after testing the sample scientists figure out how to make the comet more efficient by running Linux.

  5. Has it been hacked yet? by StarWreck · · Score: 0, Troll


    Has the comet been hacked yet?

    How long before I can run Linux on the comet?

    Can we turn the Ort Cloud into a Beowulf Cluster?

    OMG! That would be soooooooooo kewl! *SCREAMS*

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